All Films

A Few Quick Facts: Voting for Service Men Overseas

1944 • 6 min • United States of America

Disney short. Part of the "A Few Quick Facts" series.

Open Season for Saps

1944 • 18 min • United States of America

After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo.

Duck Soup to Nuts

1944 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky Pig is out hunting duck, but Daffy shows him that he is no ordinary duck.

Polar Pest

1944 • 6 min • United States of America

Barney just wants to hibernate for the winter, but his nephew, just in from the North Pole, has other plans.

A Lecture on Camouflage

1944 • 3 min • United States of America

Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.

Boogie-Woogie Dream

1944 • 13 min

After hours at a nightclub, the hired help have a jam session, which proves to be just what a couple of belated customers wanted to hear.

Crofters

1944 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A look at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland.

The Greatest Man in Siam

1944 • 7 min • United States of America

The Greatest Man in Siam Release Date: 3/27/44 Direction: James Culhane Story: Ben Hardaway and Milt Schaffer Animation: Pat Matthews and Emery Hawkins Music: Darrell Calker Animation Layout: Art Heinemann Backgrounds: Phil DeGuard Notes: Production Number: D-3 A Swing Symphony cartoon First onscreen credits for Art Heinemann and Phil DeGuard at Lantz The first appearance of Pat Matthews' shapely dancing girl, referred to as "Miss X" by the model sheets for this cartoon. Michael Fitzgerald incorrectly lists this cartoon as a February release

Be Patient, Patient

1944 • 7 min

The Fox is overweight and his doctor has put him on a light diet, which lasts only until the Fox arrives home hungry and prepares himself a large meal. The Crow, hungry as usual, decides to throw a fright into the Fox and get the meal for himself. The Crow does such a good job that the Fox imagines that he himself is dead.

Valley Of Vengeance

1944 • 56 min

Billy Carson arrives in King City looking for two men and kills them both. Caught by the Marshal he tells his story.

Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat

1944 • 7 min • United States of America

Mice, seeking shelter from a storm, enter Dr. Jekyll's house. His cat chases them, ultimately crashing into the lab, where he mixes up some of the potion. He transforms, then rounds up the mice. Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue; in the fight, the lab catches fire. The mice escape, but the house rockets into the sky.

Some of the Best

1944 • 49 min • United States of America

This film features highlights of MGM's productions from 1924 through 1943, in honor of the studio's twentieth anniversary.

Home to the Land

1944 • 19 min • Canada

This documentary from 1945 explains The Veteran's Land Act, which provided for low-cost loans to veterans who wished to purchase properties and re-establish themselves in Canada after the war. The loans were for properties ranging from town lots to full-scale farms. The Act also provided aid in purchasing farm machinery, fishing boats, building materials and livestock. Produced by the NFB for the Canadian Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Ghost Town

1944 • 6 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 September 1944. Gandy Goose and Sour Puss are a couple of prospectors looking for a place to stay overnight. When a ghostly vulture eats their horse, they hole up in Ghost Town, named for its occupants, in this funny and scary Halloween cartoon.

Witch's Cradle

1944 • 12 min • United States of America

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.

The Town

1944 • 12 min • United States of America

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in microcosm by Madison, Indiana. It was created primarily for exhibition abroad, to provide international audiences a more well-rounded view of America, and was therefore produced in more than 20 translations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Big Heel-Watha

1944 • 8 min • United States of America

To prove he's a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel - but wouldn't you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees...

Meatless Flyday

1944 • 6 min • United States of America

A hungry spider is trying to catch a fly for dinner. Both pull pranks on each other until the fly is finally caught.

Telephone

1944 • 12 min • Soviet Union

The children's writer Korney Chukovsky gets calls on his new telephone from various forest animals.

Mexico: Pátzcuaro, Veracruz and Acapulco

1944 • 4 min • United States of America

Panchito gives Donald and José a tour of Mexico on a flying sarape, or magic carpet. Several Mexican dances and songs are learned here. A key point to what happens later is that Donald is pining for some more ladies again, tries to hound down every single one he sees, and gain return affections, but once more he fails every time and ends up kissing José while blindfolded.

Silent Partner

1944 • 56 min • United States of America

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.

Jasper Goes Hunting

1944 • 7 min • United States of America

Jasper is hunting in the jungle with his friend the Scarecrow. Along the way, they run into Bugs Bunny, making a rare cameo in a non-Warner Bros. production.

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

1944 • 56 min • United States of America

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Pacific theatre of World War Two, and the handicaps of the wild jungle in addition to the Japanese snipers and pill-box emplacements.

In Memoriam Manuel Quezon

1944 • 18 min

This is a creative documentary of the funeral of Manuel Quezón, president of the Philippines